February 20, 2009
Friday Top 5: Home Styles
Home Styles
Having looked for houses for about a month now, I feel like I am on my way to understanding the myriad styles of architecture that dot the urban Twin Cities. Here are my top 5.5) Victorian
I don't know why, I would like living in a big old victorian. Something about having a turret really gets me, I can easily picture myself spending a lot of time reading up on the third story, gazing down at the street below every once in awhile.
4) Tudor
A bit out of our price range, but nice looking houses. Haven't really looked at the inside of any, but I do dig the style.
3) Arts & Crafts/Bungalow
We have seen a lot of these. Evidently they were pretty popular around the 1920s when the neighborhood that we are looking at was filling in. They are pretty affordable, if a bit large for a normal city-sized plot of land, and make for a very cozy house.
2) Craftsman
We have seen a few craftsman style homes in our search, always just out of reach. They are just ever so slightly out of our price range, and as such are made all that much more desirable. This is the real goal that I am looking for, this style is absolutely beautiful. The good thing that I have found recently is that it is not hard to make a house look like a craftsman, all one has to do is to add a nice porch, and viola!
1) Prairie
Obviously, we have not seen any of these in our search, as there is no prairie in the area that we are looking, and these are usually long and large. I was a huge Frank Lloyd Wright junkie in my high-school days, (and still am, to a lesser extent) but a house of this style is painfully expensive and requires a pretty good sized plot of land to succeed. Perhaps as a retirement home, but it would have to contend with the prospect of the underground house.
